Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis—A Memoir and Expert Analysis of Our World's Growing Vulnerability to Natural Disasters

by Samantha Montano

The development of these places where people want, or need, to live has itself increased our risk. Unchecked development and industrialization has led to detrimental impacts on the environment, including the destruction of ecosystems like the dunes in Camp Ellis that once served as natural mitigation.